Arkadiy Ivanovich Korolev: 60th birthday!

The paper analyzes Arkadiy Ivanovich Korolev’s creative career. He was born in a teacher’s family, worked at an automobile manufacturing company, graduated from the Faculty of History of Kuibyshev State Pedagogical Institute named after V.V. Kuibyshev (currently Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education), and worked as a teacher at school. Since 1985, he has worked his way up from a laboratory assistant at the archaeological research laboratory to the dean of the History Faculty of Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. Starting from his student’s life, he became interested in research work. He conducted archaeological excavations in the republics of Bashkortostan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, as well as Astrakhan, Volgograd, Penza, Tambov, Ryazan, Moscow, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk and other regions. His scientific interest is the study of the Volga region during the Stone Age. He studied the monuments of the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Eneolithic and Bronze Ages. He defended his PhD thesis in 1999. He is a co-author of several monographs on the Eneolithic of the Sura and Moksha interfluve. He has written more than 100 scientific publications and methodological recommendations on various aspects of archaeology. He actively participates in the accomplishment of state tasks and grants. A.I. Korolev is a member of the European Association of Archaeologists, he participates annually in international conferences and has published articles in highly ranked scientific journals. In his tenth year as dean, he continues to conduct archaeological students’ internships, provides methodological assistance to his students for the preparation of speeches and papers, teaches undergraduates, and provides leadership to graduate students.